I prefer my veggies plain, too. I occasionally buy frozen but not the ones with sauce or butter. I don’t care for okra but I’m told that I’ve just never had it “prepared properly”. Frankly, I’m not sure how you can prepare that slimy stuff properly. Blech.
Pickled okra isn’t slimy at all. It’s crunchy and crisp, and very yummy.
I love fresh veges and raw is the best… I could do without lima beans as they are nasty and mushy tasting to me.
Veges have no calories…which is the best of all:D
But some people actually like slimy stuff! Okra, nameko mushrooms, molokhia, nagaimo, junsai!
Oh, god, you and my elderly mother…“This is good, but I really think they are fine just plain…”
She says this any time I do anything a little bit different than the way she did, like roasting the asparagus. It tasted AMAZING, with olive oil and salt and pepper and a splash of lemon and some Parmesan. But she has this anti-fancy gene (only my sister inherited it, thank goodness) that tries to make other people feel guilty for liking anything that is slightly above plain boiled or steamed.
But she ate the rest of the bowl of shredded Brussels Sprouts while we were out of the room on Thanksgiving…she never did that with the plain boiled ones she makes!
Veggies are really good when you feed them to a cow and make the cow tasty - yes
I adore vegetables and they’re a daily staple of what I eat (except for okra, and most canned vegetables) and very often plain, just cooked with a little oil and salt.
However I enjoy cooking and experimenting with different cuisines, and don’t see doing an Indian vegetable korma, or Ethiopian-style stewed spinach with hot peppers, or fooling around with garlic, bacon grease (mmmm southern-style stewed greens, mmm) as “disguising” the taste, but enhancing or doing fun things with it.
Isn’t this sort of like asking why cook meat different ways, when plain cooked meat tastes just fine by itself?
Is your raw tomato experience limited to the stuff you get in the supermarket, or have you had really fresh tomatoes? If the former, I don’t blame you - I just don’t eat tomatoes except from my garden. But a fresh tomato, not from the farms in Florida with all the life sucked out, is a thing of beauty.
I love fresh vegetables. I never understood why people would lather them in butter or some other nonsense. Especially corn. Straight from the cob (with no butter or pepper etc) is the most delicious thing in the world. A lot of people are missing out.
I like most vegetables (especially raw or very lightly cooked), but I also like bacon and butter and other things, too. And I like those things even better when they’re combined appropriately.
And how is garlic a disguise for vegetables, anyway? Garlic is, itself, a vegetable.
Oh, and Guinastasia, my favorite tomato recipe is
1 tomato
Serves 1.
Agreed. Or they can be garnishment for the cow.
No, I’ve tried different kinds of tomatoes on several occasions and some of them were quality home-grown tomatoes fresh from the garden. I just find the taste too bitter. I think it’s the same genetic thing as the way some people don’t like watermelon or cilantro.
So you subscribe to the “that’s not food - that’s what food eats” school of thought.